GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290X, which features core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
	Difference: 6409 (153%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290X should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176000 (122%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X will be much (about 243%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 99808 (243%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X is quite a bit (more or less 75%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21920 (75%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.